I'm looking for advice in learning the first steps in programming in BASIC. I've copied and pasted stuff into Excel VBA and would like to take it further for work (and some pleasure), the Excel VBA for Dummies book I have is quite formidable though. Grasping functions, formulas, expressions etc. I'm using Linux mainly so platform agnostic introductions (books) are to be preferred, I quite like OpenOffice.org BASIC Macro Editor and have OOo Spreadsheet Programming book by Mark Alexander Bain. I vaguely remember playing around with QBasic in school in the 1990s but thats about it. Perhaps A-Level (UK) computing course material and books? Any help is appreciated.

Here is my tutorial / intro on xbasic
http://tmxxine.com/xb/
I was using XBasic many years ago with Knoppix/Debian
Frankly my Linux experience was so limited I found Xbasic the only one I could get going . . .

With Linux, XBasic requires a 6MB plug in for GUI programs (LOL - Puppy Developers all faint)
It is VERY fast but for Puppians, Freebasic might be an option
(sadly Freebasic was removed from devx as far as I know)

Gtkbasic used to be one of the main contenders for making guis like Pfind and Pburn..._________________Classic Puppy quotes
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root: n. the superuser or administrator account that has complete control over everything in the machine. Running as root is a taonga of Puppy Linux users.

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